A lot of fruit references were flying during discussion of the Kansas City International Airport terminal developer competition on Wednesday. Another city official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, found no problem with the selection committee’s follow-up questions and said AECOM’s protest could be an attempt to intimidate city officials and/or to set the stage for a future legal challenge if its team is not selected.

After making its pitch to a selection committee Monday afternoon, Kansas City architecture and engineering firm Burns & McDonnell released its proposal for the design, construction and private financing of a roughly $1 billion single-terminal modernization of Kansas City International Airport. Burns & McDonnell, which leads the self-proclaimed KCI Hometown Team, one of four development teams vying for the job, released the data via its KCIlovethisplace.com website. The financing portion of a proposal from another team led by Los Angeles-based AECOM (ACM) was made available to the public via a leak.